The author claims that Marx’s ideas have succeeded, the proletariat has
been victorious in the class conflict but the victory is completely
different from what Marx has expected. The vision of the proletariat
state ended up in a total failure. The vestiges of Marx’s proposal
testify to complete inapplicability of his main ideas to the
circumstances of the contemporary world. The concept of a state managed
by the proletariat class turned out to be defective. The ownership of
the means of production has failed. The concept of private property
defended itself and has even been strengthened. And where a public
ownership won the upper hand, as in State Treasury, it turned out to be
institutional and not collective. Moreover, the state interferes more
and more vigorously in private businesses and their activities. On the
other hand, however, the proletariat succeeded in the area of employment
law where it won some durable legal guarantees. Thus Marx correctly
perceived certain needs of the proletariat but proposed inapt solutions
to them.